Greg Van Beek's Nostalgia Radio Time Podcast

This week we celebrate Halloween with spooky songs over screaming audio and our ghoulish ghost to ghost network. With songs by Billie Holiday,  George Olsen, Glen Gray & The Casa Loma Orch., Cab Calloway, Louis Prima, Louis Jordan, Artie Shaw, our Bing Sings feature with the Andrews Sisters & Old Time Radio Time: Lights Out from 5/26/37 “Until Dead”

This week we have a Tommy Dorsey V-disc session at Carnegie Hall from April 1944, a Woody Herman V-disc session at Carnegie Hall from 1946 hosted by Orson Welles, and a Ted Weems broadcast excerpt featuring Perry Como from Oct. 1937!

This week we're joined by our good friend TCM host Alicia Malone, who has authored a new cozy mystery titled  “Murder At The Movies: A Movie Palace Mystery”. We'll talk about the book and learn a bit more about her along the way. Plus a movie that inspired the book on Old Time Radio Time: Screen Guild Players: Suspicion from 1/4/43! 

We celebrate Bing Crosby on the 49th anniversary of his passing with his first Decca recordings made in 1934! + Old Time Radio Time: Woodbury Show starring Bing Crosby from 9/18/34! 

This week, recordings from 1934-35 by  Dorsey Brothers, Jimmy Durante, Rudy Vallee orch with The Stewart Sisters,  Guy Lombardo, Hal Kemp orch, Fred Astaire, Dick Powell, our Bing Sings Feature & Old Time Radio Time: Calling All Cars 1-29-35 The San Quentin Prison Break

This week Count Basie in 1937 with early Decca recordings, Old Time Radio Time: Count Basie remote from 11/3/37 & Count Basie Broadcast excerpt from 1/10/37 along with our Bing Sings feature.

This week it's Billboard’s top 8 songs for the week ending Sept 12, 1941! With songs by Bing Crosby, Glenn Miller, Freddy Martin, Tommy Dorsey, Jimmy Dorsey & Old Time Radio Time: Tommy Dorsey Remote Broadcast with Frank Sinatra from 6/12/41

Early 30s radio! Chase & Sanborn Hour with Eddie Cantor (excerpt) from 1-28-34, Linit Bath Club Revue with Fred Allen (excerpts) from 1-22-33, The Adventures of Flash Gordon from 8-31-35.  

This week:  a Charlie Spivak Remote from the Hollywood Palladium 1943,  our Bing Sings feature with Connee Boswell,  and Old Time Radio Time: Have Gun, Will Travel from 11-29-59

This week hit songs of 1965 by Petula Clark, Gary Lewis & The Playboys, Jackie DeShannon, Beach Boys, Beatles, Byrds, Herb Alpert, Righteous Bros, our Bing Sings feature & Part 2 of our interview with Donna Chaffee, author of First Great Sorrow: My Years With Robert F. Kennedy

This week hit songs of 1964 by Gerry & The Pacemakers, Peter & Gordon, Bobby Vinton, Dean Martin, Louis Armstrong, our Bing Sings feature, + part one of our interview with Donna Chaffee, author of First Great Sorrow: My Years With Robert F. Kennedy 

This week songs by The Ink Spots, Ella Fitzgerald and The Mills Bros, The Mills Brothers & Louis Armstrong, our Bing Sings Feature, & Old Time Radio Time: One Night Stand from 7/17/44 with Les Brown!

This week we shine the spotlight on Fred Astaire with recordings made between 1942-75 along with Old Time Radio Time: Dennis Day Show from 10/10/54 with Peggy Lee!

This week it's Billboard Magazine’s Singles chart for the week ending 8/3/46! With songs by Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters, Dinah Shore, Perry Como, Freddy Martin, The Ink Spots, Eddy Howard + Old Time Radio Time: Screen Guild Players from 9/2/46 Weekend For Three with Dennis O’Keefe!

This week songs by Frank Sinatra with Tommy Dorsey, Earl Fatha Hines, Andy Russell, our Bing Sings feature, & Old Time Radio Time: The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet from 2/27/49! 

This week it's big band sounds by Andy Kirk & His Clouds of Joy, Gene Krupa, an Artie Shaw Big Band Remote from 10/19/39 and the Bing Crosby Show from 5/24/56

This week we have songs by Louis Jordan, Benny Carter, Ella Fitzgerald and the 4 Keys, plus our Bing Sings Feature & Old Time Radio Time: The Charlie McCarthy Show from 3/11/45 with Joan Blondell! 

Celebrating the bi-centennial + 50 with Billboard’s top 20 from 7/4/76! With songs by Seals & Croft, Neil Diamond, Steve Miller Band, Eric Carmen, Captain & Tennille, Hall & Oats, Starland Vocal Band, Wings, plus Bing Sings: The Crosby Medley live from The London Palladium 7/4/76! 

This week we feature WW2 era V-discs by Nat King Cole Trio, Count Basie & Glenn Miller, plus one for our Bing Sings feature & Old Time Radio Time: Gene Krupa remote from 1/31/40! 

This week we turn the spotlight on the Victory Parade of Spotlight Bands! With shows from 2/22/45 with Frankie Masters, 1/27/44 with Vaughn Monroe, 10/24/42 with Harry James along with our Bing Sings Feature! 

This week we celebrate Les Brown and his Band of Renown! With the Victory Parade of Spotlight Bands from Sept. 1944 with Les Brown, plus select recordings from 1944-46 featuring vocalists Doris Day and Gordon Drake! Plus our Bing Sings Feature & Old Time Radio Time: Bob Hope Show from 5/3/49 with Lucille Ball! 

A live Remote broadcast of the Tommy Dorsey Orch from the Meadowbrook, Cedar Grove, NJ with Frank Sinatra from 2/11/41, & a Duke Ellington Live broadcast from Radio City Music Hall on 9/8/45!

This week we put Helen Forrest 1939-40 recordings with Artie Shaw and Harry James in the spotlight! Along with Bing Sings and Old Time Radio Time: Fibber McGee & Molly from 3/21/39!

This week, Your Hit Parade songs from 1944 by The Andrews Sisters, Louis Jordan, Dick Haymes with Harry James, Stan Kenton with Anita O’Day, The Merry Macs, Bing Crosby, plus Old Time Radio Time: Suspense “Ten Grand” with Lucille Ball from 6/2/44! 

This week it's our 750th consecutive show! We celebrate with some of the best of the NRT interviews by Peggy King, Thisbe Vos, John Mills, Barbara Rosene, Tony Bambino, Regis Philbin, Brigitte Zarie, Suzy Bogguss, Deana Martin, & Pat Boone!